普通秋沙鸭

普

pǔ

通

to̅ng

秋

qiu̅

沙

sha̅

鸭

鴨

ya̅

(bird species of China) common merganser (Mergus merganser)

Characters and words in 普通秋沙鸭

普

pǔ = pu + Ø3

general / popular / everywhere / universal

普 = 並 + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: 斯普特尼克, Sputnik the satellite.

Petra Penguin is really angry at the sun for heating up earth's poles. In the space station she tries to kill the sun with a combine harvester, but the sun defends itself by flinging Sputnik replicas at Petra.

普

pǔ

通

to̅ng

common / ordinary / general / average

通

to̅ng = tu + (e)ng1

to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc

通 = 甬 + 辶 : In front of the engine a pile of yongzhong bells were blocking the way. Tommy Turtle attended to the matter and cleared the way. He lined the bells up to two lines, put on his gladiator sandals and now marches right through this path screened by walls on two sides like a roman general.

通

tòng = tu + (e)ng4

classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)

秋

qiu̅ = qi + ou1

autumn / fall / harvest time

秋 = 火 + 禾 : The Queen of Hearts (qi) celebrates autumn (秋) by offering sacrifices. She puts a bowl of cereals (禾) onto a swing (秋) and has the cereals swing into a fire (火) in front of the outhouse (ou1).

秋

秌

qiu̅ = qi + ou1

old variant of 秋[qiu1]

秋

鞦

qiu̅ = qi + ou1

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

沙

sha̅ = sh + a1

granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia

沙 = 少 + 氵 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is selling bottles (氵) in front of the ashram (a1). Smiley (少) comes round because thon is very thirsty and buys a bottle, just to find out that it contains only sand (沙).